Talk:International Fujita scale

Nice to see this here

however still some cleaning up and more notes should be added , the color for each rating seems a bit off. Joshoctober16 (talk) 21:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

The color table was directly taken from the TORRO color table since both have 12 ratings. Elijahandskip (talk) 21:44, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Chart for IF scale?

@Joshoctober16, TornadoLGS, United States Man, Elijahandskip, Hurricane Noah, TornadoInformation12, Cyclonebiskit, and Ionmars10: We have a chart for the F-scale and the EF-scale, so I was wondering if we should make one for the IF scale. This would include the SIX BASE RATINGS ONLY (i.e. IF0, IF1, etc.), not all 12 categories. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 23:58, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

We should include every rating since it would be factually incorrect to change it to be the straight rating. We would be required to include the +s and -s as they are indeed separate ratings 1/3 above or below the base rating. Would we be able to include this in infobox templates as well or no? Noah^Talk 00:08, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

When I first started the IF scale article, I tried experimenting with the Template:Infobox storm to make it have an "international" condition, but I never got it to work. Also, I agree with Hurricane Noah that all the +s and -s are needed since that is the main reason they made the scale; to divide it up by 1/3s. We also will need to have the color conversation some time because ESSL already stated the IF3-IF5 will also have +/- rating when the full scale is released out of draft/testing phase. I just did a copy/paste of the TORRO scale colors since both currently have 12 ratings, but we will have 6 extra ratings being added for a total of 18, which no color scale has been created for 18 ratings. Elijahandskip (talk) 01:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Update in future

Later this week, I will update with [1]. Elijahandskip (talk) 21:51, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

No need for two articles

Recently, the article List of tornadoes rated on the International Fujita scale was moved to List of tornadoes rated on the 2018 International Fujita scale as a new version was published and it is presumed that an article called List of tornadoes rated on the 2023 International Fujita scale will be made soon, but I don't believe that two articles are necessary. First of all, the article was moved without any discission and all tornadoes rated on the IF scale so far on the 2018 scale. Secondly, two articles aren't needed for tornadoes rated on the scale. I made an example here for what one article could look like. Infinity (talk - contributions) 22:51, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

The 2023 article won't be created as the IF scale is set to be finalized and published later this year. The list article was moved because around 40 tornadoes were rated on a scale that is not longer in use (the 12-step IF scale). Multiple organizations used that 12-step scale, so it got notability and all that. Basically just a history article now. I don't forsee a reason to make a new list for future IF scale tornadoes (unless the scale isn't formally published later this year as it is suppose to be) as it basically just replaces all the scales across Europe so European tornadoes would be rated on the IF scale only at that point (aka hundreds of tornadoes a year rather than just 40 tornadoes). Elijahandskip (talk) 22:58, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Basically, rather than a true “list of tornadoes on the IF scale” type of article, think of it as a “list of tornadoes rated on this scale that doesn’t exist anymore” article. More of a history article rather than a true stand-alone list article. Hope my ideology makes sense. Elijahandskip (talk) 23:03, 16 May 2023 (UTC)